154 Ancient Hindu Ruins in Garhwal. [No. 3, 



This is pretty simple, especially when written down clearly on 

 paper, but when heard from the mouth of the witness, mumbled and 

 half pronounced and spoken with the rapidity of a steam-engine, it is 

 not so easily caught. It means : " We heard a noise at his house. 

 Every one ran [there]. There two hundred men were collected. 

 They entered the house. They looted all the property, platters, lotas, 

 rice [of three sorts] ; dhdn, [unhusked] ; ehdwul, [husked] ; sdthi [a 

 species of Bhadai rice]. They broke the granary ; then they came 

 out, threw away their torches and fled. Then I and Parshad pursued, 

 and one thief was caught." 



Does Dr. Fallon wish us to fall back on this dialect, for instance, 

 with the certainty that by using it we render ourselves unintelligible 

 to one-half of India ? or are we to use some other dialect, unintelligi- 

 ble to this half ? Or again is each Englishman to use the dialect of 

 the district where he finds himself, and have to learn a new dialect at 

 each change of station ? 



If in reply I am told that the language meant by Hindi is the dia- 

 lect of liai and hud, hartd and hiyd ; and not that of bhd and hhdil, 

 Jcarat and haralan* nor that of die and child ;f nor that of lunula 

 and hoyd ;% nor that of cho, did and clii ;§ and that a certain amount 

 of necessary Persian words is allowable, I would ask where are we to 

 draw the line in Hindi between what is classical and what is provin- 

 cial, and in Urdu between what Arabic words are allowable and what 

 are not ? 



Remarks on some ancient Hindu Rains in the Garhwdl Bhdtur. — By 

 Lieutenant Ayrton Pullan, Assistant Surveyor, Great Trigono- 

 metrical Survey. 



[Eeceived 6th June, 1867.] 

 While engaged in surveying a portion of the dense forest that skirts 

 the foot of the Himalayas between Garhwal and Rohilcund, I dis- 

 covered a very remarkable temple and a number of carved slabs 

 scattered through the jungle. These ruins have hitherto escaped 

 notice, owing to the dense jungle in which they lie hidden. The 



* Bhojpuri. f Tirhut. % Panjabi. 



§ Bajputana and Harrowti. 



